Time Capsule Tales@timecaptales · Aug 18, 2024

A thread of rare media of animals that are now extinct 1. Footage from 1933 of the last known surviving Thylacine,…

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A comprehensive collection of rare historical footage and photographs documenting extinct animal species from around the world, including the Tasmanian Tiger, Golden Toads, Quagga, and many others that were lost to hunting, habitat destruction, and other human-caused factors between the 1870s and early 2000s.

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A thread of rare media of animals that are now extinct 1. Footage from 1933 of the last known surviving Thylacine, commonly called the Tasmanian Tiger. It died in 1936 in captivity in Tasmania.
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2. Footage of Golden Toads, extinct in 1989
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3. The only existing photo of a Quagga, taken in 1870 at the London Zoo. Quaggas were hunted to extinction by 1883
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4. Footage of a Layson Rail, a flightless bird native to Hawaii, extinct in the 1940s
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5. The last photo of a Barbary Lion, taken in 1924. The last recorded Barbary lion was shot in Morocco in 1942.
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6. Footage of the Baiji, declared extinct in 2006
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7. The only Tarpan ever photographed, taken in 1884. They were declared extinct in 1909
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8. The Carolina Conure, extinct in 1918
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9. Footage from the 1920s of Heath Hens, a large North American bird that became extinct in 1932
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10. The Bali Tiger, hunted to extinction by the 1950s
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11. Lonesome George, the final Pinta Island Tortoise, was the last of his species & died in 2012 at the age of 102
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12. The Bubal Hartebeest, hunted to extinction by 1925
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13. The Western Black Rhinoceros, extinct in 2011
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14. Schomburgk's Deer, declared extinct in 1938
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15. The Caspian Tiger, extinct by 1970
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16. The Caribbean Monk Seal, last seen in 1952 & declared extinct in 2008